苹果刷新行业消费者满意度记录 (2)
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本周二，密歇根大学国家质量研究中心发布08年第二季度美国消费者满意度指数（American Customer Satisfaction Index，简称ACSI ）报告，报告称第二季度个人电脑行业整体消费者满意度继续下滑，而苹果第二季度消费者满意度跃升 8 个百分点，以85分的成绩刷新行业消费者满意度记录，成为行业最佳消费者满意度公司，并且与第二名的差距拉大到了10 分。 第二季度 PC 行业整体消费者满意度下滑了一个百分点，至74 分。ACSI 的 Claes Fornell 教授说：“这是所有行业中，第一名与第二名差距最大的，你不得不对苹果的印象深刻。” Claes Fornell 表示，行业整体满意度下降主要是由于消费者对 Windows Vista 电脑不满意，惠普、Gateway 和康柏这三个品牌的消费者满意度都下降了4 个百分点，分别至 73、72 和 70 分。不过例外的是，戴尔电脑的消费者满意度小幅上升至75 分，居第二位。 此外，ACSI 报告还公布了电子商务类网站的消费者满意度，满意度也跃升6 个百分点至 79.3 分，主要是受 Google 满意度提升影响。 据 ACSI 报告，Google 在去年年底消费者满意度曾落后于 Yahoo!，但今年第二季度 Google 的满意度跃升了 10 个百分点至 86 分，也刷新了电子商务类网站消费者满意度的记录，与其竞争对手 Yahoo! 的差距拉大到 9 分。后者第二季度消费者满意度下滑 3 个百分点至 77 分。
Heavy Gets His Sandvich, I'm Still Waiting [Team Fortress 2] (1)
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It's good to know that the Heavy appreciates a good sandwich as much as I do. Though in my case my need for hunger-filling sammiches pushes me to hire interns in the Denver area. In the case of the Heavy? He uses his Sandvich to satisfy overwhelming hunger pangs and heal 120 health. The tidy meal does take him a good four seconds to eat, and apparently the noise of his chomping is a dead ...
Force Unleashed Not Coming To PC, And This Is The Best Excuse Lucasarts Could Come Up With [Force Unleashed] (1)
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Well, PC gamers, it looks like piracy isn't the only reason developers are cutting back on the number of games they create for the platform. It's also your expensive, cutting-edge rigs! In trying to explain why Lucasart's upcoming Force Unleashed wouldn't be gracing the company's former home platform, producer Cameron Suey has said: [If we made the game for high-end PCs], someone with a low-end PC would have a watered down experience, they would have ...
Overlord II - Now With 50% More Evil! [Overlord II] (1)
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Codemasters are to release a sequel to their 2007 minion-wrangling game Overlord that will pit the player-controlled title character and his chaotic army against an uptight, by-the-book Empire. The original game challenged you to be either evil or really evil. This, apparently, was just not flippin' evil enough to satisfy developers Triumph. Game director Lennart Sas told Eurogamer, "Now the choices are between lawful evil and chaotic evil, which usually translates to either enslaving the ...
Randy Pitchford talks Brothers in Arms Hell’s Highway (1)
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With the launch of Brothers in Arms Hell’s Highway creeping over the horizon for the end of September, Gearbox’s Randy Pitchford has come out to say a few words on what players can look forward to and what will separate Hell’s Highway from the rest of the pack when WWII shooters in general seem to be on their way out of fashion. What made Brothers in Arms the Pepsi to Call of Duty’s Coca-Cola was ...
Common Ground (1)
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Common Ground is about perceptions and misunderstandings: the player experiences a set of events from the perspective of three protagonists. Their respective ideas of what is going on (and why) dovetail together in sometimes-surprising ways, and the result is a story about communication and expectation in an ordinary family. Because of the way it plays with overlapping experiences, Common Ground also has to keep track of what you've already done (in one incarnation) in order ...
Jajah and Intel: Fully Replacing Your Phone with Your PC? (2)
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It wasn’t that long ago that Ribbit was acquired to become part of BT’s larger plans to make voice applications more prominent in main stream use cases, and not surprisingly Jajah has begun to respond with a new feature that makes your PC “act more like a phone.” Taking advantage of Jajah’s telephony, built on its own infrastructure and the Intel Remote Wake technology, PCs can accept phone calls from the sleep mode in order ...
The Only Game To Ever Draw A True Emotional Response Out Of Me (1)
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We’re probably a bit late to the party on this one but I was listening to the new GFW Radio (or The Brodeo) when they immediately jump into a discussion on Braid and other games that might make you think or be considered “art”. One of them caught my ear and I looked it up today: Jason Rohrer’s Passage. Hopefully some of you have played it already but for those of you who haven’t PLEASE ...
Build your own Atom-based desktop PC (or Car PC) (1)
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Here’s a nice little weekend project. You can pick up a barebone MSI Wind system (not the netbook, the desktop version) from Newegg for $140. It’s one of the first desktop systems to use Intel’s power-sipping Atom processor (1.6GHz). You’ll need to add RAM (it uses laptop RAM) and a hard drive (or CF card) to this kit, and maybe even a little Wi-Fi card if you’re feeling adventurous. The board itself has an internal ...
A Square Enix virtual world sans Final Fantasy characters (1)
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Square Enix plans to open a new virtual world in Japan this month, but this project is disconnected from their key franchises. You won’t find einherjar, slimes or chocobos in chic NicottoTown. This virtual world is populated with hip looking characters and real world activities like shopping for clothes. The joint project between Square Enix and Nifty, an Internet service provider in Japan, is clearly aimed at a different demographic. NicottoTown is more like a ...
When QuakeCON Forgets to Include Quake (1)
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While reading up on this year’s QuakeCON, I found that it was unlike any other in years past. That may sound good, but judging from the above video, it is probably a turn for the worse. If you watch the video, you will see the top two Quake players at QuakeCON setting up their rigs to have a showdown in the finals. Only the showdown did not happen the way you thought it would. via ...
A New Microsoft Windows Ad, I Suppose? (2)
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I’m not sure which is more humiliating, the fact that the opening ceremony for this year’s Olympics in China culminated with the unwitting projection of the Blue Screen of Death (BSoD) onto the roof of the National Stadium, presumably in full view of Microsoft (MSFT) Chairman Bill Gates, who was in the audience. Or that the organizers of the event decided to run Windows XP, and not Vista, on their PCs and were happy to ...
Dell Latitude E4200, E4300 et les autres (1)
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Dell n’est pas encore totalement rentré dans le monde des Netbooks comme on pouvait s’y attendre mais vient d’annoncer la mise à jour de sa gamme à destination des professionnels. Du coup, la marque texanne a annoncé ses deux nouveaux ultra-portables, en plus des autres modèles E de la gamme Latitude, les Latitude E4200 et E4300. On commence par le Latitude E4200 qui vous propose un écran LED de 12,1″ avec une résolution de 1280×800, ...
Team Fortress 2 Heavy Update Hits Next Tuesday [Cry Some More] (4)
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Valve announced today that the "Heavy Update," which it describes as "the largest update to Team Fortress 2 since it was first released," will be rolling out via Steam next week, August 19. The Heavy-focused revision will bring with it new maps, new Achievements, new game modes and a special installment of the "Meet the Team" video series. That means the Heavy class will finally get his new weapon load out, as the Medic and ...
Why the iPhone Matters | Walt Mossberg | Mossblog | AllThingsD (5)
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In July, Walt spoke at the Aspen Ideas Festival about the rise of the iPhone and similar devices and what it means for the future of the PC. Below are two videos of Walt’s presentation. The video on top is the complete session; the YouTube video below it is a shorter version. Also, see Walt’s reviews of the device–both the iPhone 3G and the original version, when he first wrote about its meaning and impact; ...
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I think this is basically half right. The iPhone is a Pocket Computer, and it's the first massively adopted pocket computer, that much is true. I do think, however, that the addition of geotility (location awareness) is a huge new dimension in personal computing, and the iPhone is important in this respect too.
Everun Note UMPC is First to Pack Dual-Core Processor, Says Raon Digital [UMPCs] (2)
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The latest entry into the UMPC market first stirred-up by the Eee PC is this new ultra-light from Raon Digital. It's beefy inside despite its tiny size, packing a dual-core CPU—AMD Turion—which, according to the makers, is a first. It looks barely bigger across than its 7-inch screen (with 1024 x 600 pixels), but squeezes everything else in there too, including an electronic dictionary function, Windows XP OS, Bluetooth and drive options that go from ...
Ingyen loopszerkesztés a Lividtől (1)
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A Livid ezt a jópofa eszközt, a Loopert ingyen vágja hozzánk, hogy groove-jainkat kézben tarthassuk; sőt, még a kódját is kinyitotta, hogy turkálhasson benne, aki ért az ilyesmihez. Nem is szaporítom a szavakat, itt a részletes ismertető, és a letöltés helye.
Digital Edge Gaming Table Provides Three Tiers of Peripheral Storage [Peripherals] (2)
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Like to game but hate unplugging and putting away the various peripherals you need? For $379 you can get Digital Edge's Gaming Table, which fits every gaming gadget you could possibly own, plus three 21-inch LCD monitors. Granted, I haven't fired up the PC for anything in a long while, but I don't remember that many games requiring more than a keyboard and a mouse. If you're more hardcore than me though, and you have ...
